Question

Shaquira is baking cookies to put in packages for a fundraiser. Shaquira has made 86 chocolate chip cookies and 42 sugar cookies.

Shaquira wants to create identical packages of cookies to sell, and she must use all of the cookies.

What is the greatest number of identical packages that Shaquira can make?

packages

Answer 1

She can make 42 identical packages which contains 2 chocolate chip cookies and 1 sugar cookies.

86 / 2 = 43 chocolate chips cookies

42 / 1 = 42 sugar cookies

Though the chocolate chip cookies can make 43 packs, the sugar cookies cannot fulfill the extra pack for it only has 42 pieces. That is why the maximum number of package that has identical content is 42 packages.